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Summary: Loved the audiobook version!
Review: Read by the author, this is one of the most compelling books I've ever listened to. I was truly sorry it was over when I reached the end of the final tape. I've shared this with all my friends and we all agree it's terrific. Melissa Banks. I'll be first in line for your next book!
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Summary: A Funny, Light Read
Review: I enjoyed this book as one of my beach summer readings. I found the autor to be intelligent and extremely wtty. It is a book all young professional single woman can relate to. I was disappointed at the way Jane's family was unheard from after her fathers death. I loved her pun of the rules!!!! I would love to hear more from Jane and see how her life and lovelife turn out!!!
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Summary: Stick to the print version!
Review: This book sounds like a fun, light read, but the narration in the abridged Audio version kills it! The author recites the book herself, but her voice is very flat and frankly, boring. She makes little differentiations between characters in her voice, and her attempts at acting make listening to the book confusing, since you are never sure who is the current first person in the narrative. The book itself is not bad though, this is just not a great recording.
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Summary: What would Mimi think
Review: All I could think of is what would Jane's boss, Mimi, think of the editor of this book. I think she would say, as do I, what were you doing when you were supposed to be reading the chapter about Nina and her son Barney? I kept trying to figure out what they were even doing in this book and who they were. This book is perfect without this chapter, what a waste of time this chapter was. I think if she was going to write about these people she should have tied them in better. Maybe a chapter was edited out....! This book could easily have been 5 stars. Possibly the hard cover edition is different. Was it a misprint?
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Summary: Hunting and Fishing for Life
Review: I avoided this book for a year thinking , from the title, that it was another sweet potato queen epic, but was I ever surprised when I finally took the plunge and met Jane Rosenal! What a great character! Jane is so real that we can all relate to her and to the situations she encounters as she grows up to become an interesting woman. Here is a character who loves and is close to her family, who really enjoys being with her brother and sisters and parents, and who is obviously shaped by them, as well as an eccentric novelist aunt. For example, Jane is all too aware of how her family will feel--disapproval--when she moves in with a man her father's age, but is relieved when they are cordial to him. Only when close to death does her father tell her what he really thinks. Jane's story is also about growing up--and sometimes that takes longer than one might think. It is about searching for love and not finding the right one until "Mr. Right" does come along and half scares you to death. Ultimately it is about being yourself and having the confidence to be open and real and to accept the consequences if the real you doesn't make the grade every time. The Girls Guide is funny--Jane is funny--and the book has some great lines. It is also a serious and touching story about life and finding your place in it. This is a book you could easily read more than once, maybe just a favorite chapter here and there, and enjoy equally every time.
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Summary: Great Airport read!
Review: I bought this at SFO yesterday and polished it off in about 3 hours. It was a delight -- light reading and really lovely sentimental stuff about her father. I was sorry I was in a public place -- I could have had a good cry over that one!Buy it in paperback tho -- too slim a tome to spend hard back bucks on
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Summary: a bit dissapointed.
Review: i thought this book would be much more than it was blown up to be. i dont believe that it is a 5 star book. interesting, in the beginning, but the ending completely threw it all off. i guess i just expected more.
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Summary: This BOOK is the BEST
Review: Completely summerizes and grasps a girls world. every line i laugh at... ever word is carefrully laced and the stories are beautiful. i read it twice and loved it even better the second time. how melissa wrote this is a miracle... her humor and outlook is prescise and incredible. any one who hasnt read this book yet shouldnt waste another moment! i would never go BACK to a book ive already read and tell people how good it was... if i really didnt think it was amazing! thanks melissa!
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Summary: A good book; a great first effort.
Review: Reading The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing was an effortless pleasure. Melissa Bank's writing serves quite well as the novel's unobtrusive delivery mechanism. This, in my opinion, is one of the signs of a writer with considerable skill. More than mere vignettes, each chapter holds up as a short story in its own right, while together they work to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the book's main character, Jane Rosenal. While the gaps between each chapter a large, and the chapter focusing on the friend of Jane's aunt seems out of place somehow, I found myself captivating by the concept of only being able to uncover snippets of Jane's life, rather than being able to absorb a linear view of the entire period of her life that the book covers. More than a more traditionally written novel, this gave me the sense of being a voyeur rather than a reader, which I assume was one of the author's goals. The chapters deal primarily with snippets of Jane's life as a single women, ranging from when she was a precicious 14-year old through periods of difficulty (bad relationships; the death of her father) and finally arriving at the point where she discovers what might turn out to be the right man for her. I suppose this might be a book to be savored; to be read slowly over a number of days, a chapter at a time. Nevertheless, I could not resist reading it at one sitting which is another sign, in my opinion, of a writer with considerable skill. I am looking forward to reading more of the author's work.
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Summary: Totally entertaining!
Review: Thoroughly enjoyed this one! The characters were likable, fun and the story was engaging. It's a light and fun read.
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